‘Take ye the rings off your fingers,

Put them on his right hand,

To let him know, when he doth awake,

His love was at his command.’

8.

8.2 ‘hals-bane,’ neck-bone. See The Twa Corbies ([p. 82]), 4.1.

8.3 ‘wittering,’ witness.

She pu’d the broom flower on Hive Hill,

And strew’d on’s white hals-bane,

And that was to be wittering true